Supergirl (2015–…): Season 3, Episode 15 - In Search of Lost Time - full transcript

Previously on Supergirl...

-What was that
back there?
- Cape tricks.

I've been fighting
with a cape for three years

and all it seems to do
is get in the way.

I can help with that.

On Mars,
we called it Za-alet.

It means "decay of memory."

Dementia.

Worldkillers, unite
beneath the standard of Reign.

Now all we have to do
is find them.

I think something
is wrong with me.



I keep losing time.

Sam, your blackouts
are coinciding with something,
I just--

Silence!

Sam, I know what's wrong
with you.

I'm gonna make you better.

-Start recording.

This is day three
with the subject.

My preliminary findings
show a karyokinetic anomaly,

confirming my initial
hypothesis that she
has been transforming.

Mutating into the other.

Subject remains
in a medically-induced coma,

however, further testing
will require consciousness.

So I will now
end sedation on the subject.

-Stop recording.



When you wake up,

please be Sam.

-And, go.
-Astronaut.

-SpaceX?
-Spacewalk?

-Wait a minute,
wait a minute.
-Space club?

That... That doesn't count.

Why?

Because you're
shape-shifting, Dad.

Oh.

Human games have
so many rules.

He didn't break
any of the rules.

You know what, it's fine.
Just let him have it.

-We're slaughtering 'em
anyway.
-Hah!

Hey, the Martian
Man-Father strikes again.

"Martian Man-Father"?

Fine.
The Martian Dad Hunter.

Okay. We need more wine.
Keep playing.

-I'll come and help you.
-Okay...

I'm really glad
you guys came.

Yeah, me too. Me too.

-Movie. Nine words.
-There you go.

Your dad, he's...
He's strong.

Yeah, he seems to be
taking this better than I am.

He's doing everything he can
to keep his mind sharp.

He's--

The Cook, the Thief,
His Wife & Her Lover.

-What?
-Cheating again
Come on, Dad,

no mind-reading.

You keep accusing me
of not following the rules.

You are one to talk.

My son used to wait
for me to leave,

and the moment I had gone,

he would switch around
the pieces
on the Ok-Rock-Tock board.

When I caught him, he blamed
his imaginary friend...

-What was his name?
-Wait, wait, wait.
I'm sorry.

You had an imaginary friend?

-No, I--
- Oh, yes, he did.

You said he was
a fifth-dimensional imp,

who came just
to move the pieces.

What was his name?

-Zook.
-Zook!

-"Zook! Zook did it!"
-"Zook!"

"It was Zook!"

That was you.

-Wait a minute.

It's a trouble alert.
There's a big disturbance
downtown.

Well, time to get back
to the salt mine.

What? I like this shirt.

Can't hold your liquor?

-What happened?
-She just went crazy,

started wrecking the place.

You get everyone out of here.
I'll take care of her.

I had the high score on that.

Well, she's a Kalanorian.
No criminal record.

Then why did she go
all Road House on me?

Demos says
she wasn't provoked.

Kalanorians are psychics.
Empaths.

Well, maybe she got
her signals crossed
with another psychic?

I'm not seeing any
psionic anomalies.

Well, she tore that bar up.

Her species are prone
to outbursts during
astronomical events.

-Such as?
-Mercury's in retrograde.

-Wait, what?
-Like, astrology?

More like complex luminal
and gravatic shifts

that determine
Kalanorian brain function,
but sure, astrology.

Put her in containment.

We have these Worldkillers
to focus on.

Anything?

We've been using
every device on our ship

to try and track Purity
and Reign since
the subway attack,

but there's no sign of them.

As they say on the farm,
"Not a peep."

Imra thinks they're looking
for Pestilence.

Who we still know
nothing about.

Right. And based on
our experiences
with the Blight in the future,

Pestilence should be
the easiest to see coming.

The Blight presents
as diseases, plagues,
real Old Testament stuff.

-Winn?
-Yeah.

I think this should qualify.

Whoa.

Brainy and Imra went
to check it out.

Ooh! Better them and not us.
I hate the cold.

Very thin skin. Plus,
the rivers of blood, yeah.

What if Reign and Purity
find Pestilence before we do?

-They won't.
-[Kara] And if they do,
we'll be ready.

Which means it's time for us
to start training.

Teach me how you fight
in the future.

Think it's time
we make you a Legionnaire.

Relax.

How long
have I been sleeping?

Where is Ruby?

She's with her nanny.
She's safe.

Tell me,

what's wrong with me?

Most of your blood tests
came back as normal.

But I also studied
your salt replication process.

There's trace evidence
that your cells

have undergone
a mitotal mutation that
I've only seen in insects.

It indicates metamorphosis.

When you black out,
your body seems to be changing
on a cellular level.

"Changing"? To what?

To her.

Reign.

I'm not an alien.

I don't have special powers.
I bleed.

I get sick.

My adoption papers
say I'm from Scranton.

Look, I know you mean well,
but I don't have the patience
for this,

I have to go see my daughter.

Wait. I thought this might be
hard for you to accept,

so I also compiled a timeline
of the blackouts so
you could remember.

This is the first one.

And the next.

And the next.

And the next.

This was a mistake.
I need to go see my daughter.

Lena, are you kidding me?

Let me out.

I can't.

You asked me to help you.

She doesn't fight,
she hunts.

All power, all aggression.

-Stop.

Wow.

Yeah, Brainy stitched
this together
from every bank-cam,

satellite image, and cellphone
video he could find.

-That's so cool.
The future's cool!

Welcome to the 31st century.

Huh!

Yeah, but
what's the point, though?

Big chunk of concrete
is not gonna do anything to me

that her fists
couldn't do better.

She's playing with her food.

That's how I beat her.

Can... Can we rewind?

Yeah, she's got me beat
on muscle, somehow.

But all that power
is coming from the ground,

-from that planted foot
right there.
-Mm-hmm.

And she doesn't bother
with footwork.

So, when she goes high,

that's my window.

It's also where your cape
comes in.

If she wants to be a bull,
you be a bullfighter.

I have done
something amazing.

Did you find Pestilence?

I have done something okay.

You, come here.

What?

I have fixed your old suit.

-Winn.

Hey, can I say it?
Can I say it? Please?

Yes.

Suit up.

I, um, brought lunch.

You are worried
about something, my son.

Speak.

Uh...

Just...

How are you feeling?

Never better.

Ok-Rock-Tock
is good for my mind.

Sure.

Memory, strategy.

More than that.

It hears my thoughts.

It connects me
to my ancestors

as I navigate
the labyrinth of the board.

Centering me.

Easing my mind.

That's good. That's good,
and it's, um...

It's helping?

It's been 12 hours and
46 minutes since you asked.

You fear my condition
has worsened in this time?

No.

It's just that...

We did bring in a Kalanorian

who had a psychic breakdown
at a bar.

I thought I felt something.

It was you?

You know I have
been doing the Ta'ar Ka'riq

to keep my memories
from fleeing.

You should have told me
there were Kalanorians here.

I'm sorry, Father.

In any event, I will
be more careful.

Now, come.

Play a match with me.

I never tire of beating you.

I got to get back to work.

Why don't you
bring the game to the DEO,
and we can play later?

As soon as I finish
my game against Zook.

He was right here.

Where is he?

Dad?

A joke.

Not funny, Dad.

Only because you did not
see your face.

Have you thought
about what I told you?

I get squeamish whenever
Ruby asks me to kill a spider.

How could you possibly think
I could kill people?

I don't think you could.

So, you think
I have a split personality?

Essentially, yes.

Reign is a completely
separate entity.

When she takes over,
you lose all awareness,
all control.

Your DNA rewrites itself.

Please, Sam, understand that
I would not tell you this
if I wasn't sure.

So this is what I get
for asking for your help?

What's that supposed to mean?

You ask an oncologist,
they'll say cancer.

You ask a surgeon,
they'll cut you open.

You ask a Luthor,
they'll tell you
you're a supervillain.

What?

Just tell him
I'll call him back, okay?

He's where?

James, I really wish
you'd call first.

Yeah, I tried that
for a week.

I just, uh...

Figured maybe I had
better luck in person.

Listen, I'm sorry,
I'm in the middle
of an emergency.

Oh. I'm sorry.
Is everything okay, or...

An employee of mine
asked for help
with a problem.

And now that
I've diagnosed a solution,
they don't wanna accept it.

Sounds like they need
an intervention.

Tried that.
It's not going well.

You know, I had a roommate
[clears throat] in college.

Great guy,

but he started takin'
something, I'm not sure
what it was,

but he would come home
all hours of the night

and just tear the place apart.

You know, I tried to tell him
that he had a problem,

but he never wanted
to hear it.

So I just kept cleaning up
after him.

Did he ever acknowledge
what was wrong with him?

See, that's the thing.

No matter how bad
you wanna help somebody,

all you can really do
is hold up a mirror.

Wow.

-You always said
I cleaned up nicely.

It's just like old times, huh?

Training again.

Except I basically had to
twist your arm to train.

You had no interest
in being a hero.

And now...

I've come a long way.

You ready?

Yeah, I was born ready.

If she's not gonna
use her feet, use yours.

But can my cape even do that?

Yeah.

I did not know that.

Yeah, I won't either
for another 1,000 years.

We studied your cape
to make mine,
it's Kryptonian meta-material.

Smartcloth.

Show me.

Dad, while you're here,
why don't I run you
by the Med bay,

have Alex run some new scans
on you?

-Shouldn't take long.
-No. It is time for me
to pray.

Hey, any sign
of the Worldkillers?

Still nothin'.

Well, you can catch a break,

I'm gonna take over scanning
for a while.

I know what I'm doing.

You don't need to
take over anything, Schott.

I didn't say that you didn't
know what you were doing.

You need to get out of here
right now.

Damn.

Keep your back foot planted.

You have it.

Why isn't this working?

I don't know.

I mean, the steps are easy,
I should be getting this.

Well, go easy on yourself.

The first time
you trained me,

you kicked me around the room
like a hacky sack.

It was humbling.

-I was--
-Hungover.

You were hungover.

I'd forgotten that part.

Can we keep training, please?

'Cause I programmed
the system.

I input every parameter,
every radiation marker
to trace them,

so, yeah. Yeah, I think
that makes me the expert.

Throw the punch.

-Maybe we
should take a break.
-Throw it.

The rest of us were
the experts
before you got here

and traded your friendship
with Supergirl

for favor
with Director J'onzz.

Oh, if you were in charge,
we'd still be wondering
if Reign was an alien.

You egotistical little son
of a serial killer.

Kara?

Get off me.

Now.

Really, coward?

Have you ever even held
a gun before?

I'm holding one now.

Hey! Hey!

Knock it off!

Knock it off!

I am always cleaning up
your messes.

Get out of my face!

Hey! Hey, break it up!
Come on!

Get off of him.

What the hell just happened?

It was a psychic anomaly.

I put a barrier up
to protect you all.

Oh, God. Winn, I'm sorry.
Are you okay?

I'm kind of... I feel like
I'm gonna bleed. Yup.

Demos, man,
I'm so sorry. I'm...

Hey, I'm sorry
for what I said.

For the record,
I think you're super smart.

You're great.

It's like what I saw
the Kalanorian do in the bar.

I told you she needed
more observation.

-Well, it's still
visiting hours.
-Let's go see her.

In the meantime,
Agent Schott,

round up the inhibitors
we used against Psi.

Recalibrate them. Make sure
there's enough to go around.

I didn't take enough
precautions last time,
I will now.

Come on.

It's a good thing
you came when you did, man.

Yeah, good thing.

I've never felt anything
like that.

It's like something
was inside of my brain.

I couldn't control it.

-Are you okay?
-I felt it, too.

Wait a minute,
you were affected?

I hit Mon-El.

Hard.

We... We were training,
and I was frustrated

'cause I wasn't getting it,

and then he brought up
our past,

when I used to train him,
and that's when the rage
set in.

Are you sure
you were affected?

What do you mean?
Of course, I was.

It seems like you two
still have some
unresolved issues.

Maybe it's not a good idea
you train with him.

-That's ridiculous.

No, whatever issues
I had with Mon-El before,

those are behind me.

Our relationship
is strictly professional.

This is just about
getting Reign.

Oh, no. No, no, no, no.

Turn her on her side.

-Okay.
-Prep the Med bay,
we got incoming.

What's she saying?

I don't know,
but it is definitely Martian.

I just wanna go home,

Lena, please?

Please let me out of here.

I wanna get you home
to your daughter
as much as you do.

Believe me.

I am just trying
to protect you.

Both of you.

I told you this before,

if I had hurt people,
I would remember.

You're right.

You would remember.

On some deep level,
you would feel
what you had done.

When you look at this,
do you remember
what it was like?

Attacking Morgan Edge?

What I wouldn't have given
to have seen that one
up close.

No? No recollection?

Supergirl? I mean, that's
a difficult one to forget.

Having your fist connect
with something so solid,
so powerful.

-This is insane.
-How did it feel
to obliterate?

You tore those men apart.
You ripped the limbs
from their body

and you dragged them
across the beach!

Why are you doing this?

Why?

I just wanna go home
to my daughter!

Like I'd let someone like you
near Ruby.

-How dare you?
-What did it feel like?

Living in that house,
day in, day out,

pretending to be her mother?

Watching her sleep,
so vulnerable.

Knowing that any minute
you could rip her apart
with your bare hands.

You're not a mother,
you're a monster.

And I will make sure
you never see Ruby again.

Enough!

J'onn, you knew?

I didn't wanna believe
it was getting worse.

My father has been using
a Martian practice called
Ta'ar Ka'riq

to move his memories and
emotions from the decaying
parts of his mind

to the healthy parts.

But it takes
tremendous amounts of energy.

Sometimes psychic bleeds
can happen.

And the more powerful
the Martian,

the more powerful
the bleed.

Other psychic species,
like Kalanorians,

would be the first
to feel the effects.

When an attack intensifies,

it can affect anyone
in close proximity,

and not just other psychics.

I brought Myr'nn to the DEO
because I

felt I could put a shield
over this place
and keep you all safe, but...

My father's angry about
what's happening to his mind.

And his aggression was being
funneled into all of you.

Can't you help him
with the dampening technology?

He has relied
on his mind his entire life.

First, as a theologian,

and then as a prisoner.

It's what kept him alive
for 300 years.

The White Martians may have
had him locked in a cage,

but he was still free.

This technology
would make him reliant on me.

It would strip him
of the one thing the
White Martians never could.

His independence,
his, um...

His dignity.

I remember sitting
in my kitchen when my mom
got the call

that my grandmother
drove through a traffic light.

By the grace of God,
nobody was hurt.

That was one of the
hardest things
my mom had to do,

taking away her keys.

She told my mom off,
and she cried.

Suddenly she's
in this position she's
never been in before.

She's an adult
being treated like a child.

And it was ugly,
and painful.

But it's what had to be done.

For her protection.
For everyone's protection.

I can face down
the toughest adversaries
without fear,

but talking to my father
about this...

I don't wanna take away
more from him
than he's already lost.

I just got him back.

The practice
of Ta'ar Ka'riq

keeps him as close
to the man I've always known,

and I...

I don't wanna give that up.

My uncle Jor-El used to say,

"The son becomes the father,
and the father the son."

Lena,
why are you doing this?

Just let me go home
to my daughter!

Like I'd ever let someone
like you near Ruby.

How dare you?

How did it feel living
in that house, pretending
to be her mother?

You're not a mother,
you're a monster.

And I'm gonna make sure
you never see Ruby again.

Enough!

Oh, my God! Stop! Stop!
No, make it stop!

I needed you to see it
for yourself.

All those people...

It wasn't your fault.

You weren't in control.

When you transformed,
I was finally able to get

some data on Reign's DNA,
okay?

We have knowledge now,
and knowledge is power.

Hey,

we're gonna get you
through this.

Okay. It's okay.

Footwork looks excellent.

Thanks.

So, you, uh...

You punched me.

Yeah.

Didn't feel like part
of the sparring.
Can we talk about it?

I'm... I'm really sorry.

I think it was
Myr'nn's psychic episode.

Why weren't you affected?

Yeah, the Legion ring
acts as a shield.

-Huh.
-Another perk
from the future.

-Are you sure
that's all it was?
-Yeah.

-Nothing between us?
-No.

'Cause, look, I thought...
I thought we were
in a good place.

But if we need to stop,
we'll just--

No, it's fine. This is...
This is a good thing.

There are Worldkillers
out there, we have...

Let's do this.

I'm ready.

Okay.

Why did you
bring me in here?

Just to talk.

I'd prefer to go back
to my prayer room.

Or, better yet,
take me home.

I'm afraid I can't do that.

As you've been struggling
with your illness,

your psychic waves
have escaped.

It's...
It's affecting people.

No.

I would know if it did.

I've done nothing wrong.

I would never hurt anyone.

No one thinks you're trying
to hurt them, Father.

It happened
with the Kalanorian.

A Kalanorian?

On this planet?

Why didn't you tell me
about this?

-We spoke about it.
-We did no such thing.

-Dad, you're forgetting.
-No!

I will get control of it.

I'm afraid you are not
able to. Not by yourself.

Don't you dare
tell your father what he is
or isn't able to do!

Good. You didn't dip
the shoulder. That's good.

Hey, we survived a black hole,
we can get through
this together.

Come on, try it again.

You just missed the pivot.

-Keep your left foot--
-Will you shut up?

-Please. Please,
Father, just--
-What are these for?

They're just in case.
They suppress our powers.

Is that to help me, too?

It's to help
quell your mind, Father.

So that I may assist you
in the practice
of Ta'ar Ka'riq.

You would cage me?

Never.

You're right. We have been
through a lot together.

Like that time when you
promised you wouldn't
leave the DEO,

and instead you ran off,
you got wasted.

You were reckless,
selfish, you lied,

and you didn't apologize.

-Kara, I--
-And then
there was the time

I got you a job a CatCo.

I vouched for you
at my place of employment.

And then you had Eve
do all of your work for you,

and then you screwed her
in the closet.

You didn't apologize for that.
And, shocker,
I apologized to you

for trying to make you
into a better person.

I hear you. I get it.

No, I don't think
you do get it.

I don't think you get that
I gave my heart
to a lying jackass,

who was unaware
of his behavior towards me,

who disrespected me
at every turn,

and now is this reformed
person who, what,

he wants to reminisce
about the good times?

Kara, put this on.

-Winn just finished these.
-[panting]

What did I just do?

For 300 years,
I lived in a cell.

My son will not put me back
in one!

Father.

-[automated voice]
Containment breach.
-[alarm blaring]

Containment breach.

Containment breach.

Containment breech.

Containment breach.

Containment breach.

Myr'nn.

Hey, bud.

Winn Schott!

Pam from HR?

Oh, God. Uh...

Taser.

Oh...

Sorry.

You need to listen to me.

Stay away from me!

No, no, no. Mon-El!

Father, look around you.

You're hurting people.
Your mind is doing this.

No. You are trying
to trick me.

I would never do that.

I love you.

All I want to do
is protect you,

as you have tried
to protect me my entire life.

Trust me, Father.

No! No!

Oh, no.

J'onn?

Stay with him.

Hey, I'm here. You're okay.

I know how hard it is
when everything we know
to be true changes.

But sometimes all we can do
is just accept the way
things are,

and make the best of that.

Oh, God.

J'onn.

The son becomes the father.

Do it.

I know.

I don't want you
to worry about me, okay?

I just have to stay
in the hospital
for a little while.

I miss you, too.

Yeah, the doctors
are saying it's contagious,

so I don't want you
getting sick.

Lena is gonna
check up on you,

and I will be home
as soon as I'm better.

I love you so, so much, baby.

Don't worry about Ruby,
I'll take her to--

Don't tell me where she is.

You keep her away from me
until I'm cured.

May I speak to you all?

I am sorry

for the pain I caused.

I hurt you, all of you.

I was so fearful

of losing control
of what's left of my life,

I refused to accept
what was happening.

And it nearly cost me

everything I hold dear.

I hoped I would've been able
to protect you all better.

You protect us
all the time, J'onn.

Tonight was our turn.

Hey, um, I...

I was gonna leave this here
for you. I didn't think
I'd run into you.

You brought me dinner.

Yeah. Um...

Look, I know your work's
really important.

It's saving-the-world
important, but I happen
to have a few friends

who make a habit of that.

And I know when they
get really deep into it,
they... [chuckles]

They forget to eat, so...

I didn't want that
to happen to you.

Well, that is...

incredibly thoughtful.

And I haven't eaten all day.

Well, I'll leave you
to it, then.

Well, since there's enough
food here to feed an army,

why don't you join me?

Listen, James.

There's something between us,
something good.

But in my life,
in my work,

there are people
who count on my discretion.

So I won't always be able
to share everything with you.

If you think a secret
needs to be kept,

then it needs to be kept.

Well, I appreciate that.

Tell me it's going well,
at least?

Not yet.

But it will.

And the student
becomes the master.

Can we talk about yesterday?

You were whammied
by the psychic attack.

Yes, that's true, but I...
The things I said...

I thought I had dealt
with my feelings about us.

But when we were
in this episode,

it made me realize that

our relationship
was not perfect.

You know, maybe I...
I knew that deep down.

But especially when
you were gone,

I was so busy missing you
and romanticizing us...

I do feel

a big weight
off my shoulders.

So, in a way, I'm grateful
that it happened.

I'm just really sorry that

it took a Martian attack
[chuckles]

to make it come out.

And I'm sorry
it was so brutal.

You know what,
the truth can be brutal.

It's not news to me
that I used to be a jerk.

And I'm... I am sorry.

I'm sorry.

For all of it.

I didn't really grasp
your perspective back then.

Yeah, but still, I shouldn't
have hit you.
I'm sorry for that.

And I'm sorry for...

I'm just sorry.

Can we make an agreement?

Yes.

No more apologies.

Do you wanna go be heroes?

Pestilence.